Romans 11

The Remnant of Israel

Romans 10   †   Romans 12

1  I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” [a] 4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” [b] 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. 8 According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.” [c] 9 David says,

“Let their table be made a snare, and a trap,
    a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
    Bow down their back always.” [d]

11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? 13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry; 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them. 15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead? 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree; 18 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” 20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear; 21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, [e] of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written,

“There will come out of Zion the Deliverer,
    and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 This is my covenant to them,
    when I will take away their sins.” [f]

28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy. 32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?” [g]
35 “Or who has first given to him,
    and it will be repaid to him again?” [h]

36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Footnotes:

  • [a] Romans 11:3    1 Kings 19:10 [a-1],    1 Kings 19:14 [a-2]
  • [b] Romans 11:4    1 Kings 19:18 [b-1]
  • [c] Romans 11:8    Deuteronomy 29:4 [c-1];   Isaiah 29:10 [c-2]
  • [d] Romans 11:10    Psalm 69:22-23 [d-1]
  • [e] Romans 11:25   The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
  • [f] Romans 11:27    Isaiah 59:20-21 [f-1];    Isaiah 27:9 [f-2];    Jeremiah 31:33-34 [f-3]
  • [g] Romans 11:34    Isaiah 40:13 [g-1]
  • [h] Romans 11:35    Job 41:11 [h-1]

Old Testament Footnotes:

[a-1] 1 Kings 19:10   10 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

[a-2] 1 Kings 19:14   14 He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

[b-1] 1 Kings 19:18   18 Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

[c-1] Deuteronomy 29:4   4 But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

[c-2] Isaiah 29:10   10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

[d-1] Psalm 69:22-23

22 Let their table before them become a snare.
    May it become a retribution and a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see.
    Let their backs be continually bent.

[f-1] Isaiah 59:20-21

20 “A Redeemer will come to Zion,
    and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, [a] nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”

Footnote:

  • [a] Isaiah 59:21   or, seed

[f-2] Isaiah 27:9   9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

[f-3] Jeremiah 31:33-34    33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

[g-1] Isaiah 40:13

13 Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit,
    or has taught him as his counselor?

[h-1] Job 41:11

11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
    Everything under the heavens is mine.

Romans 10   †   Romans 12

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